Cut 29 through the breastworks east of White Bluff. The Nashville & Northwestern Railroad chartered in 1852 but not complete by 1861 . After Federal occupation of Nashville, the railroad was extended west to Johnsonville on the Tennessee River. The...

This case holds images of Capt. William Howse Sikes, Co. E, 45th Tenn. Inf., CSA, (1834-1892) and his wife, Bettie Thompson Sikes (1844-1884). They were married after the Civil War on December 18, 1866. Capt. Sikes' service record indicates that he...

Napoleon Bonaparte Young (1843-1915), 1st Musician, 8th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, served as a drummer in the Civil War. He was wounded at Perryville, Ky. in October 1862. He later became a lawyer, judge and justice of the peace in Jackson County after...